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From Boom Boom to Bloomberg

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has something in common with the leggy hosts at the club known as the Boom Boom Room: A love of the iPad.

This week, the mayor became a walking, talking advertisement for the gadget. He used an iPad Friday to deliver a commencement address at Brooklyn Law School at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Later in the day, the mayor proudly showed his iPad off to U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Reporters first spotted Mr. Bloomberg using the iPad at public events Tuesday night, and, ever since, the mayor has been talking about it nonstop. The mayor said he plans to examine how the iPad might be able to help the city improve efficiency.

"It's amazing how much you can have at your fingertips," Mr. Bloomberg said Friday on his weekly radio show. "Now, is it a substitute for everything else in the world? No. I think it's fair to say that everything you can do on it, you could do without it. But it's just much easier to do it with it."

The hosts outside the nightspot du jour, the Top of the Standard, better known as the Boom Boom Room, might agree. They introduced the device Thursday night to check in guests. Previously they had been using a laptop which remains as a back-up for the moment. Now, the iPad holds the club's master list and its evening reservations, and a host said it's made life much easier.